— Oh,sorry. I'll correct it right now.
— Sorry, sir. I wasn't there at that time yesterday.
一 Next month.
— So do we. ____ is also a great school with lots of hardworking teachers and
students.
—Thank you. ____.
— Some flowers.
—You don't have to do __________except to be with them and be yourself.
Books have magical power. They contain knowledge and knowledge makes our human become wiser and stronger. Between their pages, readers can be transported to anywhere imaginable and become just about anyone... or anytime.
1 , many children all over the world don't have access to books.
For several years now, Maria Keller, a teenager from Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been trying to change that fact.
When she was 8 years old, Maria already loved reading. She also noticed that some of her classmates didn't read as much as she did. When she asked her mother why that was, her mother said that they might not be able to2 books. Maria had never thought of this. She couldn't believe that some children didn't have bedtime stories read to them, and she became3 to change this.
With her mother's help. Maria created anon-profit organization which is dedicated（致力于） to collecting and distributing books to children4 .
During the early stages of Read Indeed, Maria set the goal of collecting and distributing I million books by the time she was 18.
It didn't take long to reach that goal. Up till now, she has collected over 2.4 million books and has shipped them to many states and countries around the world.
She said, "I cannot live without books. As I continue my mission（使命）. I have learned that the number of kids who have no books is in the hundreds of millions. So I just can't5 . even after reaching my original goal of 1 million books."
She recently set a new goal:to distribute donations to kids in need in every state in the US, and every country in the world. She keeps records of her6 on a large map at the warehouse（仓库） where her books are stored and sorted.
A group of students have helped their classmate Cheng Dongdong for seven years in Anhui. Cheng, 16, was unable to walk after he got a terrible (ill) at the age of seven. "It was in Grade 2 that I introduced Dongdong' ssituation to the students. Then I asked someone would like to help him," said Wang Mi, the teacher of Cheng's class. To Wang's surprise, many students raised their (hand). And she chose eight boys (form) a special group to help Cheng. The group would take him to schoolbring him back every day, help him at lunch and play him during the breaks. After several years, Xie Chenxu, Liu Wei and Liao Jiangtao of the group are still insame class with Cheng. Xie is responsible for (carry) Cheng in and out of the wheelchair (轮椅）as he is (strong) than others. Cheng'sparents took him to lots of hospitals. A Canadian doctor (begin) treating him early this year and his situation started to become better. Let's wish him a very nice future.
A little girl walked to and from school every day. Though it was not fine and clouds appeared in the sky that morning, the little girl made her daily trip to school as usual. When school was over, winds became stronger and it began to rain.
The mother of the little girl felt worried that her daughter would be afraid and that lightning might frighten her child.
Following the bright light of lightning, the mother quickly got into her car and drove to her child'sschool.
As the mother drove along the road, she saw her little girl walking alone in the rain. To her great surprise, she found that when a lightning came, her daughter stopped, looked up and smiled. Another lightning came and then another followed. With each lightning, the little girl stopped, looked up and smiled at it.
Inside the car, the mother asked her daughter, "What were you doing? Why did you lookup and smile when the lightning came?" The little girl answered with a smile, "Mum,you know, God (上帝) was looking at me. Each time I felt a little afraid walking in the rain, God would take a picture of me. I knew he was playing a game with me."
I have a neighbor we call "Happy". I have never seen her angry at anything and never heard her say a harsh (苛刻) word to anyone or about anyone.
Happy and her husband Ben, 70, have a huge garden. They spent many happy hours together working on it. Most of the neighbors watched interestingly as Ben doubled the size of their garden. As the cost of food climbed faster than Ben's beans, we all wished we also had such a large garden. As the rest of us spent our dollars at the market, Happy could be seen picking beans in her backyard.
Last month, Happy and Ben invited most of the neighborhood over for an "all-day food fest". We were told to bring gloves and arrive very early in the morning. We didn't know what was about to take place.
By 9:00 am, there were nine of us in the garden picking tomatoes, beans, okra, and squash. By 10:00 am, there was lots of laughter. We shared a lot of stories. By five o'clock, everyone was a little drunk from the wine and beer. After dinner, we played games. As we were leaving, Happy and Ben handed each of us a shopping bag filled with the bounty（收成） of the day, already packaged and frozen. What a delightful gift!
Well, the point wasn't so much about the food. The true gift was a day of friends enjoying one another's company. None of it would have happened if it had been for Happy and Ben's garden. Now they have a blog about gardening in case we decided to plant a garden. And I am so proud of my tomato plants!
Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.
During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.
He reported the case to the police and then sat there，lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.
Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband's name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can（垃圾桶）that had been left out on the footpath.
My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.
That family not only gave back the important documents to us that day but also gave back our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send them a warm wish.
Medical experts say most Americans do not get enough sleep. They say more Americans need to take a nap—that is to rest for a short period in the middle of the day. They give people advice to sleep lightly before continuing with other activities. The experts say naps might improve health by reducing pressure.
Some European and Latin American companies have supported the idea of napping for many years. They ask people to leave work, go home and have a nap before returning. In the United States, some companies let workers rest simply in their offices. They believe this can help workers make fewer mistakes and also increase the amount of work that a person can do.
Sleep experts say it is likely that people make more mistakes at work than at other times. They say people should not carry out important tasks when they feel sleepy. And they say the best thing to do is to take a nap. About twenty minutes of rest is all you need. Experts say this provides extra energy and can increase your effects until the end of the day. But experts said that a nap should last no more than twenty to thirty minutes. A longer nap will put the body into deep sleep and waking up will be difficult.
From the world's heaviest apple, the oldest lady to the world's smallest dog, these are all parts of a group of the world's strangest people and things. And they are all in the Guinness Book of Records(《吉尼斯记录》).
The book is going to celebrate its birthday this August. It began exactly half a century ago. And it's always one of the bestselling books in the world.
People now can break over 1000 records every week! Why do so many people want to break the records? Do they want their names in the book or meet more people around the world? "It gives people a chance to show they're the best in the world." said one of the record keepers Stewart Newport.
The book was started by Hugh Beaver from Britain. In 1951, he went shooting birds and talked with his friends about the fastest bird in Europe. Three years later, they were still talking about it. So Beaver believed that people must have different ideas. So, he decided to start a book to record the world's truly greatest people and things in it!
The newest book came outlast Tuesday. This book has a lot of interesting records. Here are two:
☆ A British dog, Whitney, is the world's smallest dog. It's only 76mm tall.
☆ An American woman Lee Redmond has the longest fingernails(指甲).They grew as long as 600 mm! She made the record in 1971.
When people talk about air pollution, they are usually thinking about outdoor air1 But do you know that there is2 air pollution inside homes, offices, hotels and other buildings? The air in your home can be 2 to 100 times more polluted than the air outdoors! In fact, some American doctors say that 50% of illnesses have3 to do with polluted indoor air.
A lot of pollution comes from indoor activities4 smoking and cooking. As most people5 about 80-90% of their time inside buildings, it is important to take indoor air pollution seriously, too.
Air pollution influences our health6 When the air is polluted, not only young children and old people suffer from it,7 people with health problems suffer as well. Indoor air pollution can8 people's eyes, noses and throats. Air pollution, both indoor and outdoor, can also lead to lung cancer （肺癌） and heart disease! In the great London fog in 1952, 4,000 people died in a few days9 the pollution!10 is said that half a million young children and women die each year in India because of indoor air pollution!
I'm the mother of a fourteen-year-old girl. I have a rule for my daughter: be among the top 5 students or get punished in one way or another. She has been doing very well in school, but some friends of mine keep telling me that I put too much pressure(压力)on her. Am l wrong?
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Hi，TigerMom，
What troubles you is actually a trouble for many parents in China. My idea is that
